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With the premier yearling sales in Australia in the books for another year, the focus of the bloodstock world will turn back to the upcoming breeding season, and breeders and owners will have a chance to stock up their barns at the Inglis Australian Broodmare & Weanling Sale, which runs May 3 to 6 at the Newmarket complex in Sydney. A total of 884 lots have been catalogued, broken down into 272 weanling on day one; 195 broodmare on day two plus stallion shares in Sebring (Aus) and Onemorenomore (Aus)...

One of the most popular races on the Japanese calendar, the G1 Tenno Sho (Spring), at 3200 meters, is the Japan Racing Association's longest race. Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) holds the course and track record for his Tenno Sho score in 2006, and while progeny of the champion sire have conquered almost every major contest in the country, this race has eluded them. The Deep Impact-sired Kizuna (Jpn), who already emulated his sire with a win in the G1 Japanese Derby two years ago, looks to reverse that trend. The...

If form means anything, Saturday's G2 Dunaden at Overbury Jockey Club S. at Newmarket should be cut and dried for 'TDN Rising Star' Telescope (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). With only four runners lining up, the early marker of the strength of the older horse scene in Europe suggests that it is weaker than usual and Highclere Thoroughbred Racing's already accomplished 5-year-old has an ideal starting point. Trainer Sir Michael Stoute has seven renewals under his belt and has minded the G2 Hardwicke S. winner and G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. runner-up...

By Daithi Harvey  A high-class field of 19 colts has been declared for the first European Group 1 of the season, the QIPCO 2000 Guineas, at Newmarket on Saturday. The Aidan O'Brien-trained Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is the market leader as he bids to get his 3-year-old career off to a perfect start. He is joined by his stablemate Ol' Man River (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), and this unbeaten colt-- who was sold as a yearling for €2.85 million--gives the Ballydoyle/Coolmore team a strong hand.  French trainers are also well represented, however. Andre Fabre saddles Territories...

On the face of it, Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has it all going for him as he heads to post for Saturday's G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Hailing from Aidan O'Brien's stable, which with six wins in the famed Classic is just one shy of equaling John Scott's record, Michael Tabor's handsome bay is partnered by one of the very best jockeys that Britain has produced in recent times in Ryan Moore, and he even has the ideal fast-but-safe ground conditions that this heathland is renowned for producing. To top it...

Racing NSW has purchased A$1.5 million worth of “state of the art” drug-testing equipment, which has the ability to screen for more than 8000 different types of drugs in any single analysis of a swab. While up to a few years ago technology could test for only a few hundred drugs stipulated in advance, the new equipment can test for many more without the analyst stating in advance what drugs are to be tested for.  “This highlights that gone are the days where swabs will only be analyzed once,” said...

Unbeaten 'TDN Rising Star' Dortmund (Big Brown) will face five rivals in Saturday's GI Santa Anita Derby while a field of seven are slated to line up for that same day's GI TwinSpires.com Wood Memorial S. at Aqueduct.  The Kaleem Shah colorbearer, last seen wiring the GII San Felipe S., will re-oppose Prospect Park (Tapit) and Bolo (Temple City), the second- and third-place finishers from that Mar. 7 heat, respectively. Dortmund, hero of last December's GI Los Alamitos Futurity and the Feb. 7 GII Robert B. Lewis S., has been assigned post one. Regular rider Martin...

By T.D. Thornton  Anthony Bonomo has been voted chairman of the New York Racing Association Reorganization Board in a proxy vote by the organization's board of directors, according to a report in The Saratogian.  The same story also reported that Tuesday's scheduled NYRA open board meeting—its first since December—was called off because of "Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to extend state control of NYRA for at least another year," although no formal extension has been announced.  Gov. Cuomo's press office refused to answer questions late Wednesday afternoon about whether an extension...

by Alan Carasso For 36-year-old trainer Olly Stevens, Saturday's GI Ashland S. will be a homecoming of sorts. Again.  When last seen at the historic Lexington oval, Stevens was unsaddling Qatar Racing's Peace and War (War Front) following a somewhat improbable victory in the track's GI Darley Alcibiades S. on the first Friday of October 2014. With a strong performance Saturday, Stevens is looking forward to the possibility of an appearance about 70 miles west on the first Friday of May.  Raised in Newmarket, the 'headquarters' of the English racing scene, Stevens...

The Kentucky Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, Keeneland Racecourse and Churchill Downs Racetrack have formed a partnership designed to generate funds for the work of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, the non-profit organization that serves as both an accrediting body for facilities that care for Thoroughbreds at the conclusion of their racing careers and a fundraising engine to support aftercare facilities approved by the alliance.  A partnership agreement signed by leaders of the three organizations calls for Kentucky HBPA member owners to contribute $5 to the TAA for each of their...

In the absence of the G1 1000 Guineas-bound High Celebrity (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), today's G3 Prix Imprudence looks a soft touch for His Highness Aga Khan's Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) as Maisons-Laffitte hosts the first significant Classic trial of 2015. Whether or not the leading 3-year-old filly of the Pau stable of Jean-Claude Rouget will be in the line-up across the sea in just over four weeks' time remains to be seen, but she would be one of the main contenders if she builds on her solid juvenile form here. Last...

Thursday's G3 Prix Djebel at Maisons-Laffitte offers the opportunity for a clutch of French colts to stake a claim for the G1 2000 Guineas, with one of the most intriguing being the unbeaten Andre Fabre project Make Believe (GB) (Makfi {GB}). A half-brother to the high-class Dubawi Heights (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), Prince Faisal's rare foal purchase had the re-opposing fellow Guineas entry Sinfonietta (Fr) (Sinndar {Ire}) back in second on his debut over 7 1/2 furlongs at Deauville in late October before following up over the same trip at Saint-Cloud the following month. By...